Keegan Full of Ideas And Enthusiasm – Duff

Damien Duff has played well for Newcastle since he returned just before Christmas, from his serious ankle injury .

Damien Duff – has good opportunity now at Newcastle

And with Keeganâ€™s arrival at the club his style of play will fit right in with what the manager is looking for, so itâ€™s a chance for Duff to shine and return to the form he showed at Blackburn and Chelsea, before arriving at Newcastle in the summer of 2006.

Damien talked to the Newcastle Journal today, in a long interview:

â€œWe want to start winning games again. Weâ€™ve not won since December 15 and the gaffer has come in and we havenâ€™t managed to improve results yet. I think weâ€™re all desperate to get that first win on the board for him because heâ€™s a great fellow and we want to show what a positive impact he has already had on the club.â€

â€œOf course these things take time, but everyone has really enjoyed his arrival. It might not have seemed like that because of results, but I think weâ€™re all excited about what is happening and where the club is trying to go. However, we need to show that by putting points on the board.â€

â€œIâ€™ve been really impressed with the new managerâ€™s ideas and the enthusiasm he brings to the training ground and the dressing room on a matchday. This is just the start, but the sooner we get that first win the better.â€ â€œIn many ways Sunday will be like a fresh start for the team because it doesnâ€™t get much tougher than two back-to-back away games against Arsenal.â€

â€œI think weâ€™re glad to see the back of Arsenal after what they have done to us away from home this season. It was always going to be hard on Tuesday night, but weâ€™re still annoyed at a disappointing result.â€ â€œWeâ€™ve conceded some sloppy goals again and weâ€™re not creating enough chances at the other end, but we donâ€™t have to play them every week and we can look forward to Sunday and the game against Middlesbrough.â€

â€œYou only have to look at the squad weâ€™ve got. Weâ€™re down to the bare bones, weâ€™ve got kids on the bench and weâ€™re trying to compete with arguably the best team in the Premier League.â€

â€œWeâ€™ve got four lads away in the African (Cup of) Nations and weâ€™ve picked up injuries. The squadâ€™s too small to cope with that and I think any club in the Premier League would be struggling with what we have at the moment if they had to go to the Emirates twice in four days.â€

â€œIâ€™m feeling pretty good. It was a really bad injury and Iâ€™m still getting a bit of an ache in that area which the doctor says will probably last for a few months yet. But itâ€™s great to be back and I can feel myself getting stronger with each game I play.â€ “Newcastle is where I live, itâ€™s where my heart is and the club pays my wages. I want to get things right here more than anything else.â€

Damien has a great opportunity to play well for Newcastle now, but that’s also true of everybody else in the squad. Let’s be honest, they haven’t exactly played great this season for either Sam Allardyce or Keegan yet – and they have that responsibility, given all the ludicrous wages they receive.

So the onus is now on the players to start producing, starting on Sunday against Middlesbrough.

We expect a good game, attacking play, and all 3 points on Saturday. 😀

Still think it would be worth given him a Nobby type of role at Left defence and let Zog be more attacking on the left side. I don’t think he will ever be as good as he was as an out and out winger but could do a great job as an attacking defender. Still plenty of mileage left in him imo.

if everyone just takes a step back and looks at our defence, Sam has done a great job, Enrique is class, so is Beye, so is Faye, Cacapa is much better than what people say and in truth has only had a few bad games, Taylor is improving all the time and is very commanding in his area, and we have a good utility defender in rozenhal, who in my opinion is best at DM

I would like keegan to come out and let us know who he actually tried to sign.At the moment we dont know what is paper talk and what is not.We have been linked with richards and bentley to name two.If this is true then its shows we are ambitious about getting in top class players.

Cacapa will get used to Premiership and adapt his game to his ability. He has strength but just needs to be able to utilize it week in and week out, sometimes he is barged over by weeker strikers as he just doesn’t seem prepared for the physical battle, but he will improve as he is very experience and like you said, he knows how to read the game. He has no pace, but there are many defenders who have no pace but read the game well enough to stop even the fastest of players, he just needs more time to adjust. He is ok in the air aswell so i do not know why you said he is no good in the air

Yep Taylor and Faye top pairing, i would flog Rozenthal and Cacapa and bring in another 2 good defenders to compete for places, Roz and Cacapa are ok, but for where we aim to be simply not good enough!

think we will see the best of duff under kev,hes had a bad injury and played in a bad team under allardyce.when he gets confidence and fitness back will shine.dont think milner playing well at moment and should try duff and nzogbia on wings for a change.enrique has showed promise and will be very good defender if given time.evra and vidic for man utd were bad in first 6 months but have settled and are 2 of the best defenders around.too many newcastle fans turn on new players too quick, beye,talor,faye,enrique not too bad of a defence and buy a quality centre back and right back in summer to make us strong in these positions for once.need a top class playmaker and another forward,owen way off the pace and viduka always injured.we have to start picking uop points or could end up in relegation battle,next 6 games hard fixtures

Pompey was his worst performance and apparently he was playing through injury.

And any defender will look crap against man united….because they are man united, they have some of the best attacking players in THE WORLD.

Davey G you know nothing about football, Cacapa to blame for Arsenal game?? hmmm, i was at Emirates both times and you can not single him out for us losing as our defence simply could not cope with Arsenals attack for the whole 90minutes. You are just talking shit as usual you little boy, grow up.

Dragoner,ooooooooooo, such hurtful remarks!!! But I am not a little boy……………….WRONG AGAIN!!! Oh dear, your year goes from bad to worse, you just dont seem to have a clue do you????

IMO, you havent got the foggiest, and i dont believe for one minute you were at the Emirates during the last 2 matches (Unless you were attending he the toilets of course), coz if you were, you would have agreed with myself Most of the fans and the Pundits, that Cacapa is SHHHHHHHHHHITTTTTTT!!!!!!!

Good words from duff and i for one look forward to the games ahead and am not a member of the doom and gloom club. Ok so we only drew vs Bolton but wait a sec, nearly all those players played 2 days earlier for an hr with 10 men, we had butt, smith, emre, viduka, barton, geremi, martins, faye and baye all out for variuos reasons, and bolton setup for a 0-0 so imo that wasnt such a bad result. the two Arsenal games well what can i say Arsenal harvent been beat at home for over a year they will push man U all the way and there team is brimming with confidence. So ok wel lost twice but thats no discrase either. The games against the teams around us will tell me if keegan can do somnthing this season or if its going to be a long hard struggle. Up to Toon!!!!!

like i said Davey G, watch a live match first and then talk. By the way your previous statement about most fans on here thinking cacapa is shit, hmmm, wrong again, why dont you try asking people what they think before you open your mouth little boy

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